Vista SP1: Still lagging behind the Linux desktop
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| I've now been working with Vista SP1, the so-called RTM (release to
| manufacturing) version, for about two weeks. I am amazed at how little
| improvement I see in this so-called major update.
|
| Last year, I took a long, hard look at Vista versus desktop Linux, testing
| SimplyMEPIS 6, in a four-part series. In the months since then, we've learned
| that Microsoft lied about how much hardware was needed to run Vista in an
| affair that we're now calling Vistagate.
|
| Personally, I didn't need to see Microsoft/Intel e-mails to know that "Vista
| Capable" PC requirements were so much BS. I found that doubling Microsoft's
| minimum daily PC requirements would get you to the point of a bearable Vista
| experience. Not a good one, mind you, just one that wouldn't have you pulling
| out your hair.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5456703154.html
News about IBM and Linux keep coming and it's great publicity!
IBM throws out Windows, offers Linux
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| IBM, which has sold its PC business to China's Lenovo, said the hardware
| would be made by partners of VDEL and LX Polska.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10496244
Related:
RE: Windows Vista VS Linux
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| # Drivers in windows vista are too difficult
|
| * In Linux all my devices “just worked”.
| * After a clean install of Vista, nothing works. You then have to hunt
| down drivers.
| * Driver updates from windows update made my laptop less stable, not more
| stable
|
| [...]
|
| This is a big one. I hated Outlook, it was slow, buggy and bizarre. I
| dreadfully missed Konsole, bash, sed, grep, awk, etc. All my attempts at
| finding alternatives and solutions (like cygwin… which fails in Vista) were
| failures. But I don’t like giving up.
|
| For Outlook, I switched to Thunderbird and Lightning.
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http://blog.indigio.com/index.php/2008/02/24/re-windows-vista-vs-linux/
First impressions of Sidux, the Debian based Linux distro
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| Over the years, I had grown tired of the way Windows operated. I was always
| having to update my operating system and keep everything locked down with
| antivirus and spyware prevention software. All of this just to make sure the
| computer would work the way it should work. Not only that, but Windows
| itself and the way it operates just seemed to get on my nerves. It does
| things like changing drive letters on a USB drive for no apparent reason.
| For that matter, a lot of things Windows does is for no apparent reason.
| That gets very old, very quick.
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http://myviewmytake.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/first-impressions-of-sidux-the-debian-based-linux-distro/
Vista to Ubuntu (100%)
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| I had enough with eating crap with Vista. My last line of patience warned off
| when I happened to wait about 5 seconds when changing from one MS Doc file to
| another and also happened that I was running with time to finish a project
| report. No, I’m not running on 256 ram, it’s 1 GB and this kind of a time
| wastage is totally unacceptable. You may ask why I put up with Vista in the
| first place. That’s thanks to HP’s decision to embrace Vista so my laptop was
| pre-built with Vista and no chance to downgrade because there are no drivers.
| So where to go now ? Easy….Gutsy.
|
| [...]
|
| But my worries were groundless as Wine now supports Macromedia 8 series like
| a babe. Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash all works perfectly with Wine -
| installation to Execution. Another great thing with Gutsy is that my Broadcom
| network card support is inbuilt and with some additional applications I can
| search networks and connect to them like a charm. Also I’m using AWN manager
| to manage desktop (here is a great article on desktop styling - thanks to
| Lakshan) and now it looks like a hybrid between Leopard and Vista. So what
| else I can ask for ?
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http://luckycala.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/vista-to-ubuntu-100/
Prediction: Linux will Eat Microsoft on Most Desktops
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| Now, compare that to a $500.00 desktop running Linux and OpenSource
| applicaitons. That would be about $50,000. The difference? Two or three
| employees, a huge bonus, a couple of vehicles, whatever. Not small.
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http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/prediction_linux_will_eat_micr.php
Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs
| in users' hands.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to.
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice
| of the desktop market pie.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html
Ubuntu Linux vs Windows Vista: The Desktop Battle
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| It’s easy these days to buy either a Vista or Ubuntu laptop or Desktop. Dell
| supports both of them, as one possible choice.
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http://polishlinux.org/linux/ubuntu/ubuntu-linux-vs-windows-vista-the-desktop-battle/
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| Message-ID: <jngne4-fv3.ln1@xxxxxxxxxx>
| From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
| Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
| Subject: Re: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) released
| Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:09:54 +0100
|
| > http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408
|
| Here's some interesting comparisons between Debian Etch and Vista:
|
| Project Life-cycle:
| . Debian - 1.75 years (Etch)
| . Vista - 5.50 years
|
| Supported Architectures:
| . Debian - Sparc, Alpha, PowerPC, i386, ia64, PA-RISC, MIPS, ARM, IBM
| S/390, AMD64 and Intel EM64T. (Older custom versions for the
| Motorola MC68K series)
| . Vista - Technically ... none, since it doesn't really work.
|
| Available Desktop Environments / Window Managers:
| . Debian - 3D-Desktop, 4dwm, 5Dwm, 9wm, aewm, AfterStep, amiwm,
| Blackbox, Compiz/Beryl, CTWM, dwm, EDE (Equinox),
| Enlightenment, EvilPoison, evilwm, Fluxbox, foXdesktop,
| FVWM, FVWM95, FVWM-Crystal, Gnome, hackedbox, HaZe, IceWM,
| Ion, JD4X (Java Desktop), JWM, Kahakai, KDE, KWin, Larswm,
| Luminocity, LWM, Matchbox, Metacity, Metisse, MWM (Motif),
| OLWM/OLVWM, Openbox, Orion, Oroborus, PekWM, PLWM, PWM,
| Qvwm, ratpoison, ROX, Sawfish, Scwm, Stumpwm, swm, The GREAT
| Desktop, TrsWM, twm, UDE, uwm, Waimea, WindowLab, Window
| Maker, wm2, WMI, wmii, XD640, XFCE, Xfwm, XPde, XPwm, XWEM
| . Vista - Aero
|
| Price:
| . Debian - £0.00
| . Vista - £187.48 (Home Premium - a.k.a. The "real" version) [Amazon]
|
| License:
| . Debian - Mainly GPL/LGPL. Full sources available at no cost.
| . Vista - Proprietary. SDKs only. (Limited Sources available to select
| partners and government agencies).
|
| Role/Deployment:
| . Debian - Server, Desktop, Media Centre, Office, Cluster /
| Supercomputing, Any Purpose.
| . Vista - Experimental Desktop, Toy, Practical Joke.
|
| Summary:
| . Debian - "Support for Debian is among the most complete you can find
| in the open source world. Debian is traditionally a
| distribution of developers that connect with each other and
| with users via email or IRC. Developers respond to bug
| reports promptly. Several mailing lists in all supported
| languages have high traffic and people that like to help.
| If you're in a hurry, you can join the #debian IRC channel
| on the freenode network. You can even pay for support if
| you want to; debian.org has a list of companies that will
| take your money and answer your questions.
|
| Debian is the most truly community-driven distribution,
| proud of its GNU name. It supports lots of platforms, and
| its software quality assurance is excellent. Security flaws
| are fixed in the Etch repositories quickly. With mirrors
| all around the world, installation of new packages is
| quick. Even if any single Linux company disappears, Debian
| will remain intact -- as my desktop OS."
| - http://tinyurl.com/yqg3cq (newsforge.com)
|
| . Vista - "I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating
| system, which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately
| this product is unfit for any user.
| - http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2 (hardocp.com)
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Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
Ugly view mars Windows Vista birthday
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| According to latest data from NPD, Microsoft is shipping fewer boxed copies
| of Windows Vista than it did Windows XP at the same point in the operating
| systems' lifecycles.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/11/30/vista_birthday/
The Vista Death Watch
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| Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP because Vista has simply not
| shown any life in the market. We have to begin to ask ourselves if we are
| really looking at Windows Me/2007, destined to be a disdained flop. By all
| estimates the number of Vista installations hovers around the number of Macs
| in use.
|
| How did this happen? And what’s going to happen next? Does Microsoft have a
| Plan B? A number of possibilities come to mind, and these things must be
| considered by the company itself.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2209837,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000584
Lenovo offers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP
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| My colleague Stian just sent me this interesting link regarding my
| experiences with Windows Vista. Since I assume the link will NOT have the
| visual appearence it has right now for very many more hours (days) I've
| created a screenshot of how it looked when I went into the site.
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http://jaxed.org/lenovo-offers-downgrade-from-windows-vista-to-windows-xp.blog
Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
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| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
DSG continues retailer woes
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| DSG, the company formerly known as Dixons, became the latest British retailer
| to report a drop in profits for the summer months today. But it wasn’t all
| down to the rotten weather – this time it was also Microsoft’s fault.
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http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/748756/dsg-continues-retailer-woes/
Dell casts doubts on Vista
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| Dell today revealed that it will restore the option to use Windows XP on
| some of its home systems, marking a potentially damaging blow to
| Microsoft's hopes for the newer Windows Vista.
|
| [...]
|
| While a popular request through the company's IdeaStorm website, the
| choice was substantially outnumbered by requests for pre-installed
| Linux, US-based technical support, and other features -- pointing to a
| larger general demand for the change. The turnaround may be a reflection of
| an overall backlash against Vista, observed IDC analyst Richard Shim.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/19/dell.casts.doubts.on.vista/
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